Python-OCR
OCR = Optical character recognition
In simple words, this project extracts text from an image.
Requirements
sudo apt-get install python-imaging
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
sudo apt-get install python-opencv
How does it work ?
This is the original image which will be used for extraction of text.
- First process the image
python process_image.py test.jpg text.jpg
The image will look like this after the process_image.py script
is executed.
Finally run this script to extract text from the image
- Extract text
python extract_text.py
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